Re: IKEv2 Key Size Conformance Requirements

["Housley, Russ" <rhousley@rsasecurity.com>]

Bill:

> > Why are every multiple of 8 bits required? Does anyone use these in
> > real life?
>
>I could have sworn we discussed this here a couple months ago; check
>the archives.
>
>For what it's worth, I'll repeat what I said last time.. *in real
>life* I've seen both PGP and SSH implementations generate keys with
>moduli which were a bit or two shorter than the desired size.

This is actually an easy mistake.  I was involved with an implementation 
that made this error.  Fortunately, we caught it ourselves, and it was 
pretty easy to fix.

Russ